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~BOUVARDIA versicolor. 
Trumpet-flowered Bouvardia. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ‘Rusracem. Jussieu gen. 196. 
BOUVARDIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 107. 
B. versicolor, foliis oppositis, corolla clavato-tubulosa: tubo intts glabro. 
Fraticulus durits lignosus erectus ramosus cortice pallido: rami oppositi v. 
solitarié ‘laterales, erecto-patentes, ‘teretes, lanuginosi, interdim rubentes. 
Fol. opposita, distantia,. patentissima, firma, duriuscula, . oblongo-v. ovatoe 
lanceolata, 3-plo longiora quam lata v. magis, lanuginosa, ciliolato-serrata, 
longé attenuata petiolum versiis brevé attenuata, supra scabriuscula, majora 
subbiuncialia; petioli stipulaceo-connati, sepe rubentes, multotiés breviores 
laminis: stipule gemine, subulate, appresse. Pedunculi. ramorum termi- 
nales, solitarii, viz duplo longtores petiolis, 3-2. pluri-flori atque semeb 
trichotomi, bibracteati, bracteis subulalis v. nunc diminuto-foliaceis ; pedicellis 
brevioribus calyce. Flores nutantes, | flavo-coccinet pariim excedentes unciam, 
inodort. ' Cal. brevis, 4-partitus, villostusculus, patens, germinis continuus s 
foliolis Zanceolato-subulatis, sinubus latis distinctis. Cor. tubata, nuda, ob- 
tusé 4-vona, vel sepe demta unica quarta parte numeri 3-gona: tubus longis- 
simus, infern® versits attenuatus, intis omnind glaber; limbus multotiés 
brevior, 4-partitus, patentissimus; laciniis ovato-attenuatis, equalibus, firmis, 
duriusculis, recurvis. Stam. alterna laciniis, tubo (cui filamenta omninod 
adnata) equalia: anth. ore tubi sessiles, fusce, lineari-oblonga@, erecta, 
introvers@, a medio dorso affize. Germ. breve, oblatum, lanuginosum, biloe 
culare, dispermum; stylus capillaris, brevior tubo: stig. 2, alba, linearie 
lobiformia, erecta, subconniventia. 
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We do not trace our plant in any published species, and 
have ranked it in Bouvarnra with some hesitation. ‘The 
technical character of that. genus expresses a calyx with a 
tooth between each of the 4 segments, and a polyspermous 
pilocular germen; in this there were no intervening calycine 
teeth, and though the germen seemed bilocular it did not 
appear to be polyspermous; but our view of it was 
transient, and: we may have mistaken the receptacle of the 
ovula for a single ovulum, and missed the true ones; for we 
thought the loculaments monospermous. ‘The leaves are 
here by pairs, instead of by threes as in triphylla, 
The drawing was made from a plant at Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne’s nursery at Fulham, where we were 
informed that it had been received from a collection at 
Ghent, under the name of Housronra alba, without any 
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